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off-the-charts

off-the-charts adjective: exceeding the normal range of measurement.

Adjective

off-the-charts (comparative more off-the-charts, superlative most off-the-charts)

  1. Exceeding the normal range of measurement.
    • The off-the-charts sea temperatures and Antarctic sea ice loss were seen as the most shocking.2023 August 28, Damian Carrington, Nina Lakhani, Oliver Milman, Adam Morton, Ajit Niranjan, “‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of off-the-charts

comparativemore off-the-charts
superlativemost off-the-charts

Questions about off-the-charts

What does off-the-charts mean?
Off-the-charts means exceeding the normal range of measurement.
What part of speech is off-the-charts?
Off-the-charts is an adjective.

Words near off-the-charts in the dictionary

  1. off-street
  2. off-target
  3. off-the-air
  4. off-the-ball
  5. off-the-books
  6. off-the-charts
  7. off-the-cuff
  8. off-the-grid
  9. off-the-gridder
  10. off-the-gridders
  11. off-the-peg

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